Snippets - The 'Language' in Domain-Specific Language Doesn't Mean English (or French, or Japanese, or ...)

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The 'Language' in Domain-Specific Language Doesn't Mean English (or French, or Japanese, or ...)

“…language is deceptive. They try to make it English-like. But it isn’t English. It’s a programming language. And it has rules and a syntax that are very unEnglish like. There’s a major cognitive dissonance—I have to take ideas expressed in a natural language (the problem), then map them into an artificial language…”